by Frances Phillips | Nov 25, 2017
Writer and performer Paul Flores and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) are collaborating to create We have Iré, a performance exploring transnational identity that focuses on the lives of Afro-Cuban and Cuban-American artists who are living in the United States...
by Frances Phillips | Oct 24, 2017
Writer Gary Soto is collaborating with San Francisco Youth Theatre (SFYT) to create The Afterlife, a new play about gang violence, teen death, and suicide. The Afterlife tells how a single outburst of anger ends a young man’s life. After Chuy, the protagonist, is...
by Frances Phillips | Sep 19, 2017
Writer, performer, and visual artist Baruch Porras-Hernandez will collaborate with Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana, Inc. (MACLA) to develop an anthology composed of five distinct superhero short stories written by Bay Area queer and Latinx writers, and a...
by Frances Phillips | Sep 1, 2017
Openhouse and Katie Gilmartin are collaborating to witness, honor, and preserve LGBTQ elders’ memories of tavern culture and bar raids through oral history interviews, walking tours, readings, and the writing of Vice Academy, a novel about Queer taverns and raids in...
by Frances Phillips | Aug 22, 2017
Andrew Lam is collaborating with Pacific Links Foundation (PALS) to write four long literary essays and three short stories exploring issues related to being a displaced person. These will encompass stories of refugees who came to America, victims of human trafficking...
